GQue Barbecue Opens Today in Westminster

The smoke continues to pour from new barbecue joints around town: GQue Championship BBQ opens at 11 a.m. today in Westminster, serving Kansas City-style barbecue from competitive pit master Jason Ganahl. According to the company's Facebook page, the kitchen will start out slowly, smoking enough meat for 200 customers today to allow the staff to gauge how lunch and dinner will flow.

GQue will serve ribs, brisket and chicken along with a variety of sides and four Colorado beers on tap from breweries in the immediate area. Ganahl is also a bourbon enthusiast so will have a selection of his favorites on hand to go with his award-winning smokehouse recipes. Sauces — a standard, savory mix called the Topper and a spiced up version called Hottish — will be served on the side and will also be available for sale by the bottle.

The new restaurant features a massive Ole Hickory smoker that Ganahl named Duane, in which he'll burn a blend of pecan and hickory logs to give GQue's meats distinctive smoke and sweetness. The restaurant will be open for lunch and through dinner, or until the food runs out.

Mark Antonation is the Westword Food & Drink Editor. He got his start by eating at and writing about every restaurant on Federal Boulevard and continues to cover the metro area's diverse international food scene, as well as the city's quickly changing restaurant landscape.